​Are you a victim of domestic violence? Remember anyone with access to your computer may be able to tell what web sites you have visited. It may be safer to access the internet at a public place such as a local library. Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)for assistance finding local resource contact information.

Personal Protection Orders

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​​A Personal Protection Order, or PPO, is an order issued by the Circuit Court. It may protect you from being hit, threatened, harassed or stalked by another person. The PPO may also stop someone from coming into your home or bothering you at work. It can stop them from buying a firearm or finding your address through school records. It can also stop them from taking your minor children unless required by the court.

The type of PPO is determined by how you know the other person and not the behavior. Please review the following to determine which PPO is appropriate.

I.​

​A Domestic PPO:Use this form if the person you want restrained is 18 years of age or older and:

if you are married to the person you want restrained; or

if you are not married to the person you want restrained but
you live with or have lived with him or her and he or she is not your
unemancipated minor child; or

if you and the person you want restrained have a child in
common even if you were never married to one another or never lived
together; or

if you and the person you want restrained have or had a dating relationship.

​II.

​A Non-Domestic Stalking PPO:Use this form if the person you want restrained is 18 years of age or older and you do not have a domestic relationship to this person.

​III.

​A Non-Domestic Sexual Assault PPO: Use this form if the person you want restrained [from sexually assaulting you or threating to sexually assault you] is 18 years of age or older, you do not have a
domestic relationship with this person, and this person has:1) previously been convicted of a sexual assault against you; or
2) subjected you to, threatened you with, or placed you in a reasonable apprehension of sexual assault, or
3) previously been convicted of furnishing you, a minor, with obscene material; or
4) furnished you, a minor, with obscene material.

​IV.

V.

​A Non-Domestic Sexual Assault PPO Against a Minor: Use this form if the person you want restrained [from sexually assaulting you or threating to sexually assault you] is under the age of 18, you do not have a domestic
relationship with this person, and this person:
1) is subject to an order of disposition or other adjudication based on a sexual assault against you; or
2) has subjected you to, threatened you with or placed you in a reasonable apprehension of sexual assault; or
3) is subject to an order of disposition or other adjudication based on furnishing you, a minor, with obscene material; or
4) has furnished you, a minor, with obscene material.